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FILE - In this Feb.26, 2021 file photo, Brahim Ghali, head of the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic and the Polisario Front, poses in the refugees camp of Tindouf, southern Algeria. Brahim Ghali was released from a hospital in northern Spain following more than six weeks of treatment after contracting COVID-19, according to a brief statement sent to the Associated Press by the self-declared Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic. Ghali has long fought to break the Western Sahara away from Moroccan rule. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)

Western Sahara independence chief leaves Spain for Algeria

Jun. 02, 2021 03:16 AM EDT

National Guard asked to help staff Oregon State Hospital

May. 28, 2021 01:34 PM EDT
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Significant staffing shortages at the Oregon State Hospital prompted health officials to call for the National Guard’s assistance at the...

Vice President Kamala Harris attends a meeting with business CEO's about economic development in the Northern Triangle, Thursday, May 27, 2021, from her ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Vice President Harris to speak at Naval Academy graduation

May. 28, 2021 01:00 AM EDT

A U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying relief supplies from the United States in the wake of India's COVID-19 situation arrives at the Indira Gandhi International Airport cargo terminal in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. (Prakash Singh/Pool via AP)

India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data

By Ashok Sharma Apr. 30, 2021 12:50 AM EDT

Theologian Lisanewerk Desta poses for a portrait at his house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Dozens of Tigrayan priests and deacons were detained in the capital, most for a month, according to Lisanewerk, who leads the library and museum department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He also said he has spoken with a detainee at a center near Harar who estimated that more than 2,000 people were held there. “I don’t have words. How to explain this kind of hatred?” he asked. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

'Clean out our insides': Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

By Cara Anna Apr. 29, 2021 02:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 17, 2019 file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A plan to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which was halted earlier in 2021 amid a political backlash, is on again as health authorities on April 19, 2021 expanded the vaccination program on the Navy base in Cuba to the entire adult population of the remote facility. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

AP source: Guantanamo prisoners now getting COVID-19 vaccine

By Ben Fox Apr. 19, 2021 02:07 PM EDT

Brig. Gen. Kerry L. Muehlenbeck speaks as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, right, listens after she was introduced as the state's new adjutant general of the Arizona Guard during a press conference at Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Phoenix. Maj. Gen. Michael T. McGuire, left, the outgoing adjutant general, listens. (Nick Oza/The Arizona Republic via AP)

Governor appoints first woman to lead Arizona National Guard

By Jonathan J. Cooper Apr. 08, 2021 03:08 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 16, 1997 file photo, Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino shakes hands with OSCE representative Austrian Franz Vranitzky, in Tirana. Bashkim Fino, who was appointed prime minister to shepherd Albania out of almost total chaos 24 years ago when fraudulent investment schemes collapsed and angry crowds looted military installations nationwide, has died aged 58. Fino's family and his governing Socialist party said the former prime minister died Monday March 29, 2021 in hospital, where he had been treated for several days after contracting COVID-19. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)

Economist who pulled Albania out of 1997 anarchy dead at 58

By Llazar Semini Mar. 29, 2021 12:20 PM EDT

A child rests its head on a table as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer processes migrants after they crossed into the U.S., early Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Roma, Texas. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges

By Jonathan Lemire, Nomaan Merchant, Lisa Mascaro And Aamer Madhani Mar. 24, 2021 12:27 PM EDT

At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts

By Sam Mednick And Joseph Wilson Mar. 07, 2021 03:47 PM EST
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others...

FILE - This Dec. 29, 2019, aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the coalition and the Iraqi military said. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

US warns of military response to rocket attack on Iraq base

By Samya Kullab And Lolita C. Baldor Mar. 03, 2021 10:57 AM EST

FILE - Inn this Aug. 24, 2020, file photo, a midshipman uses a sanitizing wipe to clean her desk before the start of a leadership class at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The U.S. Naval Academy is developing plans to begin vaccinating midshipmen in March 2021, so students can deploy out to ships and with Navy teams as part of their training this summer. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Naval Academy seeking student vaccines for summer training

By Lolita C. Baldor Mar. 02, 2021 04:06 PM EST

Plan to fund work at former Maine Air Force bases gets OK

Feb. 20, 2021 01:21 PM EST
LIMESTONE, Maine (AP) — A Maine legislative committee has advanced a proposal to provide funding to an authority tasked with redevelopment of a former Air...

In this Feb. 9, 2021 photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group host the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine, as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors and find the right pitch that will convince troops to take the shot. Some Army units are seeing as few as a third agree to the vaccine, others are higher. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP)

Thousands of service members saying no to COVID-19 vaccine

By Lolita C. Baldor Feb. 17, 2021 01:19 PM EST

Kelly: As vaccines ship, convincing skeptics needs focus

By Jonathan J. Cooper Feb. 16, 2021 07:55 PM EST
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AP) — As production of the COVID-19 vaccine ramps up, the next focus for officials needs to be ensuring people want to get the shot...